Word: broker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatly heartened in this vigilance was SEC by the Roosevelt victory. It meant a clear path for the investment trust regulation which SEC will recommend to the next Congress. It was a full-speed signal for SEC's plan for segregating the function of broker and dealer, conferences with the reluctant New York Stock Exchange on that subject being scheduled for this week. And it was apparently considered a general order to SEC for brisker performance on its regular beat patrolling the U. S. securities business...
...story broke in the Traveler last night. University Hall surmised that the metropolitan press had picked up a tip from a Boston insurance broker, since Mr. Lowes' statement forms the first official word on the subject...
...Oriental young women have ideals distinctively their own appeared in Tokyo, where students at the Government's "schools for prospective wives" lately voted by large majorities that the ideal Japanese suitor is a rather stout man with a steady job who secures his fiancèe through a broker, takes his wife home to live comfortably with his parents and three times per month escorts her to the theatre or a movie...
...position of Dean Plimpton and his associates is essentially that of broker or middleman. He cannot and would not, if he could, pull jobs out of his pockets like a beneficent Santa Claus. But his organization can and does perform all in its power "to help a man help himself...
...promoted the idea of a second professional league, which got quick backing. Burly, pipe-smoking Dr. March is currently its president. Most remarkable of the League's teams are the Yankees and the Tigers, both owned and backed by New York socialites. Owner of the Yankees is Broker James Irving Bush. Among its stockholders is Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Men in White). The team plays in red, white & blue uniforms, has two lady pressagents...